On 06/27/2018 07:07 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
If the backing file is overridden, this most probably does change the guest-visible data of a BDS. Therefore, we will need to consider this in bdrv_refresh_filename().
So all in all, there will be false negatives where (as of a future patch) bdrv_refresh_filename() will assume that the backing file differs from what was specified in the image header, even though it really does not. However, these cases should be limited to where (1) the user actually did override something in the backing chain (e.g. by specifying options for the backing file), or (2) the user executed a QMP command to change some node's backing file (e.g. change-backing-file or block-commit with @backing-file given) where the given filename does not happen to coincide with qemu's idea of the backing BDS's filename. Then again, (1) really is limited to -drive. With -blockdev or blockdev-add, you have to adhere to the schema, so a user cannot give partial "unimportant" options (e.g. by just setting backing.node-name and leaving the rest to the image header). Therefore, trying to fix this would mean trying to fix something for -drive only. To improve on (2), we would need a full infrastructure to "canonicalize" an arbitrary filename (+ options), so it can be compared against another. That seems a bit over the top, considering that filenames nowadays are there mostly for the user's entertainment.
Lengthy commit message, but the rationale is sound and useful. Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
